GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (2250MHz vs 1770MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
5437
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+323%
23040
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 16
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
24
SM Count
40
1536
Shading Units
5120
96
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
84.96 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
169.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
10.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
5.437 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
169.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
100W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU116
GPU Name
AD104
TU116-400-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.6 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
284 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
